First Church of Christ, Scientist
San Diego, CA

STOPLIST
1912 Murray Harris Pipe Organ

GREAT


    16    Diapason (Violone - metal)
     8    First Open Diapason
     8    2nd Open Diapason
     8    Dopple Flute
     8    Viol d'Amour
     8    Gamba
     4    Octave
     8    Trumpet
     8    Chimes
    16    Great to Great
          Unison Off
     4    Great to Great

SWELL

    16    Bourdon
     8    Violin Diapason
     8    Stopped Diapason
     8    Salicional
     8    Vox Celeste
     8    Aeoline
     4    Harmonic Flute
     2    Harmonic Flute
     8    Oboe
     8    Vox Humana
          Concert Harp
          Tremulant
    16    Swell to Swell
          Unison Off
     4    Swell to Swell

CHOIR

     8    Geigen
     8    Melodia
     8    Concert Flute - never installed
     8    Dulciana
     4    Flute d'amour
     8    Trumpet (gt)
     8    Orchestral Oboe
     8    Clarinet
          Chimes
    16    Choir to Choir
     8    Choir Unison Off
     4    Choir to Choir

PEDAL

    32    Resultant (Bourdon 16 + Violone 10 2/3, notes 1-12)
    16    Open Diapason -WOOD! (grin)
    16    Violone (gt).
    16    Bourdon
    16    Lieblich Gedeckt (sw., I think)
     8    Flute
     8    'Cello (ext. Violone?)
     8    Trumpet (gt) - proposed

COUPLERS


     8    Great to Pedal
     8    Swell to Pedal
    (4    Swell to Pedal - proposed)
     8    Choir to Pedal
    16    Swell to Great
     8    Swell to Great
     4    Swell to Great
    16    Choir to Great
     8    Choir to Great
     4    Choir to Great
     8    Choir to Swell - removed
    16    Swell to Choir
     8    Swell to Choir
     4    Swell to Choir


I'd be VERY surprised if the Swell to Choir couplers hadn't been simply left
off the list. I'll ask Paul next time I talk to him.

New console, 1950s? Sort of Schlicker-ish rocker tabs, rebuilt by Lyle
Blackinton, 1990s. In a pit in front of the Reader's Desk (typical old CS
church layout)

The room is excellent ... the building is Irvin Gill ... the organ chamber
has unimpeded egress into the auditorium, and a handsome decorated facade
that was covered over in the "modernization" in the 1950s, and uncovered
again in the "restoration" of the 1990s. The auditorium features a Tiffany
stained glass dome, which was covered over at the onset of WWII and never
uncovered, until now (the church stands on a hill above San Diego Bay and
the various military installations).

The organ was featured as part of an AGO "organ crawl" recently. Younger
organists didn't have a CLUE what to do with it; older organists just smiled
adjusted their glasses, and opened their copies of Annus Ecclesiasticus,
etc. (grin), and proceeded to play up a STORM (chuckle).

Cheers,

Bud Clark
San Diego CA USA

[Posted to PIPORG-L June 5, 2008]